The Asiatic cheetah is one of the rarest mammals on earth. Fewer than 100 survive in the wild, and all of them are confined to Iran’s central desert, where I deployed camera traps. One of them ...

Today the Asiatic cheetah, the elegant subspecies that once graced the royal courts of India, Persia, and Arabia, is all but extinct. In Africa cheetah numbers plummeted by more than 90 percent ...

Only 7,100 cheetahs are left in the wild, almost all of them in Africa. The Asiatic cheetah, which once roamed parts of India, is now only found in Iran, where there are thought to be about 50 left.

The Asiatic Cheetah could once be found in areas stretching from the Arabian Peninsula to Afghanistan. It is now known only to survive in Iran. In 2022 government officials there reported that ...

The modern cheetah species is now much more restricted in range, and there are only a few subspecies that still exist. A ...

International Cheetah Day, observed on December 4, highlights the urgent need for cheetah conservation and raises awareness ...